Filing Your Private School Affidavit (PSA)
California
Education Code 33190:
Every
person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering
or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or
high school level shall between the first and 15th day of October
of each year, commencing on October 1, 1967, file with the Superintendent
of Public Instruction an affidavit or statement, under penalty
of perjury, by the owner or other head setting forth the following
information for the current year.
The
California Department of Education offers a standardized online
form, the Private School Affidavit (PSA). It is completed
online
at the California Department of Education website beginning
on October 1st. The form should be filed between October 1st
and 15th of every year. The CDE usually leaves the form up
until early spring. Schools that are created after the filing
period should file at the time the school is established.
Electronic filing may not be available all year; if you need to
file your affidavit and cannot do so electronically, you can
still file a Statement in Lieu.
NEW
for 2008:
New information has been added to the CDE website, and they
are once again allowing schools to request a paper Affidavit
by writing to the CDE no earlier than August 25. This is to
accommodate those schools without internet access. Written
requests may be e-mailed to the Elementary Education Office
at privateschools@cde.ca.gov, faxed to 916-319-0126, or mailed
to: Elementary Education Office Attn: Private School Affidavit
California Department of Education 1430 N Street, Room 4401
Sacramento, CA 95814. Paper affidavits will be mailed out
beginning in late September.
CHN has information pages that may be downloaded to
assist in filling out your PSA. One provides adetailed
line by line instructions for completing the online
PSA, and the other is a
sample PSA.
(This information was updated on September 30, 2008.)
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